Armistice Day

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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

-- from John Donne, "Meditation XVII," 1624. (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.)

Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.